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		b_e_n_t_o_n 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Therac-25 Incident (2021) invariants are so useful to enforce even for toy projects. they should never be triggered outside of dev, but if they do sometimes it's better to just let it crash.

bzzzt 8 months ago [–]

Making sure the beam is off before crashing would be better though.

b_e_n_t_o_n 8 months ago | [–]

For sure :P

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